NJ Turnpike Authority Wants To Cash In On Turnpike & Parkway Logos

[agentsteel53]

I'm going out on a limb saying that this reasoning will result in approximately 1 lost sale total.

more like 2. 

I have bought precisely one Route 66 shot glass in my life, because it had ILLINOIS US 66 all in correct fonts.  I'd love to find a handful more but the rest all appear to suck.

[kkt]

What's cool IMO about the PA turnpike logo is the state abreveation PENNA.  as far as I know it's the only state with a widely accepted 5 letter abreveation.

Calif.

[NE2]

I'm going out on a limb saying that this reasoning will result in approximately 1 lost sale total.

more like 2. 

I have bought precisely one Route 66 shot glass in my life, because it had ILLINOIS US 66 all in correct fonts.  I'd love to find a handful more but the rest all appear to suck.

Eh, that's reasonable to ignore items that don't match the actual signage. But ignoring items that do match signage because the signs don't use the FHWA font?

[ctsignguy]

The toll road logos used by the N.Y. State Thruway, the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Maine Turnpike are pretty good, but not as distinctive (in my opinion) as the N.J. Turnpike.

I like them all.....but i would see them when i was a kid on a road trip vacation to New England, so they have a special meaning to me....














IMHO, not a bad looking one in the bunch.....

[oscar]

I have seen tee shirts with the N.J. Turnpike logo on them for sale at some of its service plazas.

So have I.  The Authority would cash in some more if they sold the tees in my size.  It could also cover all the bases by expanding the size range to include the Governor's size.

[cpzilliacus]

I have seen tee shirts with the N.J. Turnpike logo on them for sale at some of its service plazas.

So have I.  The Authority would cash in some more if they sold the tees in my size.  It could also cover all the bases by expanding the size range to include the Governor's size.

I can relate - except I need a size bigger than the current governor of New Jersey.

[Alex]

The toll road logos used by the N.Y. State Thruway, the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Maine Turnpike are pretty good, but not as distinctive (in my opinion) as the N.J. Turnpike.

I like them all.....but i would see them when i was a kid on a road trip vacation to New England, so they have a special meaning to me....

IMHO, not a bad looking one in the bunch.....

Nice collection, especially the WV Tpk shield. Looks like you are only really missing a KY Turnpike trailblazer. One of my favorites, of which I had Jake made me a replica, is the Delaware Turnpike logo:



I might buy a shot glass or t-shirt with the trailblazer on it if DelDOT bothered to keep it around.

[kphoger]

As an aside, the versions of the shields shown in SHSD are vanilla.  Several tolling authorities in Texas have substituted designs of their own for the flag and "TOLL" in the bottom space.  NTTA has a design built around its circle-T logo, while the Central Texas RMA (which operates the SH 183A toll road near Austin) uses a star with a road ribbon.  Instead of numbers in the upper part of the shield, NTTA uses facility name abbreviations:  PGBT, SRT, etc.  I think the vanilla design is used just on the CTTP turnpikes near Austin (SH 1, SH 45, SH 130, etc.) and possibly on SH 255 (the former Camino Colombia toll road) near Laredo.

The old shield for the Camino Colombia (from some random website), before the toll authority went belly up and the highway was bought by the state:


The new shield:


One question I have, which I haven't found an answer to, is whether or not the CCTR had star-shield reassurance markers.

[ctsignguy]

The toll road logos used by the N.Y. State Thruway, the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Maine Turnpike are pretty good, but not as distinctive (in my opinion) as the N.J. Turnpike.

I like them all.....but i would see them when i was a kid on a road trip vacation to New England, so they have a special meaning to me....

IMHO, not a bad looking one in the bunch.....

Nice collection, especially the WV Tpk shield. Looks like you are only really missing a KY Turnpike trailblazer. One of my favorites, of which I had Jake made me a replica, is the Delaware Turnpike logo:



I might buy a shot glass or t-shirt with the trailblazer on it if DelDOT bothered to keep it around.

I saw  one of those attached to a BGS in the Delaware Sign Shop yard back in 1992, but was unable to get it  (the yard boss would have been happy to let me have it if i could have gotten it off myself, but alack and alas, i didnt have the needed tools to pop it off....so i had to wave it bai-bai....)

i am also missing a NH Turnpike trailblazer.....

[Alps]

I'm going out on a limb saying that this reasoning will result in approximately 1 lost sale total.

more like 2. 

I have bought precisely one Route 66 shot glass in my life, because it had ILLINOIS US 66 all in correct fonts.  I'd love to find a handful more but the rest all appear to suck.

Eh, that's reasonable to ignore items that don't match the actual signage. But ignoring items that do match signage because the signs don't use the FHWA font?

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. And I do apologize, the GS Parkway clearly doesn't use FHWA fonts. Not that they couldn't if they wanted to...

[Pete from Boston]

I also disapprove of toll road markers, such as Texas' new statewide toll road markers, which rely on stretching an existing shield to form a design element in the toll-road shield.

Can you post a pointer to an example?

Pages 28-33 in this PDF (3 MB):

Toll signs chapter in Standard Highway Sign Designs for Texas

Well, at least they're prepared for when I-1635 finally gets built.

[kphoger]

As an aside, the versions of the shields shown in SHSD are vanilla.  Several tolling authorities in Texas have substituted designs of their own for the flag and "TOLL" in the bottom space.  NTTA has a design built around its circle-T logo, while the Central Texas RMA (which operates the SH 183A toll road near Austin) uses a star with a road ribbon.  Instead of numbers in the upper part of the shield, NTTA uses facility name abbreviations:  PGBT, SRT, etc.  I think the vanilla design is used just on the CTTP turnpikes near Austin (SH 1, SH 45, SH 130, etc.) and possibly on SH 255 (the former Camino Colombia toll road) near Laredo.

One question I have, which I haven't found an answer to, is whether or not the CCTR had star-shield reassurance markers.

J N Winkler (or anyone else):  Are you able to find the answer to my question?  I'd really like to know, actually.